PHILADELPHIA — Kyle Kendrick got his second opinion, and with it he got confirmation that it’s best for him and his tender rotator cuff to take a seat for the final two weeks of the season.

In a not-so-shocking announcement, manager Ryne Sandberg said the right-hander had been shut down and that Zach Miner will start games in Miami and Atlanta in Kendrick’s place.

He got a second opinion,” Sandberg said, “and that’s the route that everybody is going in, so Miner will start in his spot.”

The injury will take Kendrick into an intriguing winter. He’s in the final year of arbitration, and despite going 10-13 with a 4.70 ERA thanks to a terrible second half in which he had a 6.91 ERA in 11 starts, the 29-year-old probably will command somewhere in the $6-8 million range for 2014 — that is, if the Phillies make a qualifying offer.

Odds are, the Phillies will make that qualifying offer if the shoulder inflammation Kendrick has experienced in the last two months involves no structural issues, as an MRI showed. Even if they aren’t interested in keeping Kendrick, he would have a modest amount of trade value to a team seeking an inning-eater in the back of the rotation.

Sandberg doesn’t think there is reason for concern about Kendrick’s health.

“Not really, because his velocity was fine,” he said. “He was able to pitch and his stuff was there. As far as movement on the sinker, I thought that was a little less the second part of the season. But other than that, he was healthy enough to pitch and it was a normal sensation that he was feeling.

While Kendrick closing shop on his season wasn’t a surprise, a pitcher who returned to the active roster Friday was. Right-hander Michael Stutes, who was shut down in late June with recurring soreness in his surgically repaired throwing shoulder, has been quietly working out in Clearwater, Fla., this month and was deemed ready to make a few cameos in the final 10 games.

“Yeah, he’s good to go. We’ll use him accordingly,” Sandberg said of Stutes, who was 2-1 with a 5.17 ERA in 13 appearances with the Phils in May and June. “There will be a little bit of caution there, but he is good to pitch.

“He is healthy and for him to end the season (pitching), I think it adds some depth into the decisions to be made.”